Volunteers Drive All Over Atlanta To Study The City’s Heat

Scientists are driving around Atlanta to track the city’s heat and figure out which areas are hottest.

Molly Samuel / WABE

As climate change drives temperatures higher, scientists are working to map Atlanta’s heat, to figure out which areas are hottest and which populations are most at risk.

To help them, this past weekend dozens of volunteers spent hours driving around the city, recording temperatures as they went.

“Science is in motion, y’all,” Taylor Lamb said as she pulled out of a parking lot to begin driving a sensor mounted on her car. “Science is happening.”